Noyes House Museum

Noyes House Museum. This exceptional brick federal home was built for Jedediah Safford, son of Morrisville's first resident, John Safford. In 1947, the Village of Morrisville, with funding from the Alexander H. Copley Trust, bought the house for use as a community center. However the renovation funds were instead allocated to Peoples Academy to build a new gymnasium. Around the same time, an oil company expressed interest in purchasing it to build a gas station. Fortunately, the town was opposed to this and declined the offer., In 1952, the Safford home was leased to the Morristown Historical Society for the fee of one dollar, for use as a permanent museum and headquarters of the local historical society. Today, as the Noyes House Museum, the building houses an interesting collection of furniture, textiles, military objects, clothing, photographs, pottery, folk and fine art, tools, and objects of daily life., ( photo caption ) , The house exhibits all the characteristics of classic Federal high style: a 2 1/2 story, five-bay facade, a central hall entrance with a fanlighted and sidelighted door, and on the gable ends, paired interior end chimneys and decorative lunettes. A 1 1/2-story wood frame building was later added to the main brick structure. Photograph ca. 1885.